1 Introduction

The following represents the data exploration for the data collected during the collaboration between Osa Conservation and Earthwatch for the project entitled:

A multi-taxa approach comparing the success of active tropical rainforest restoration with old-growth forest in Costa Rica.

Also known as:

The Piro Restoration Experiment

The centralized document for the protocols used in this experiment lives here. Note, as this is a working document only OC staff currently have access.

1.1 Study area and survey locations

The following map shows the locations of all the surveys included within this project to date, coloured by simplfied treatment category: active restoration; natural restoration and forest control.

The number of survey locations for each category are as follows:

Treatment Number of Locations
active_restoration 30
forest 24
passive_restoration 10

1.2 Historical survey timeline

NOTE We still need incorporate the vegetation data [Also - should we add historical dung beetle and butterfly data?]

1.3 Earthwatch survey timeline

Now lets zoom in on data collected since our collaboration with Earthwatch started:

And a summary of the number of different surveys conducted by year:

Table 1.1: Table 1.2: Number of unique site-date surveys by type and year
Survey Type 2017 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Total
Birds 117 95 105 0 0 0 152 0 469
Bats 0 0 0 200 240 240 239 14 933
Camera traps 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 155
Amphibians 120 121 124 56 0 0 68 0 489
Small mammals 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 19
Total 237 216 229 256 240 240 633 14 2065